Stacey Dash must have REALLY taken all of the flack she got over her Mitt Romney endorsement to heart. Or she got in trouble in English class.

After being ravaged on Twitter for speaking up in support of the Republican presidential candidate, the actress has responded to all of her haters in the form of a three-page essay.

We're not going to show you the whole thing because, well, it's three pages long, but here's the general gist.

Before the election results were in, she admits that President Barack Obama "will always be remembered as one of the greatest leaders this United States of America has ever known."

Even though "he's brilliant, understated, ethical, a great husband and father," Romney's "bipartisan success as governor" attracted her to vote for him in hopes that he would "work on both sides of the aisle" to "get our country back on its feet."

Then she blames Osama Bin Laden for "the free-fall of our economy." But she's confident that Romney's administration would work "tirelessly to create a strong" one again because that's more important than "equality and women's rights" for now.

10 hours later, after her candidate lost, she concluded her essay by writing:

"President Obama has been re -elected. I congratulate him. No he was not my choice, but he was the choice of the majority of our country. I do respect and appreciate that the country came together to make a choice. So for that I applaud Americans."

For the most part, it was a pretty cohesive and well-written explanation of why she chose to vote the way she did. While we're sure many people will roll their eyes at her unnecessary effort, we understand it was mostly a response to "being criticized in such racially charged and hateful tones," which we thought was total bullshiz.

Gurl had something to say and she said it. We do it every day.

Do we disagree with her? Yes, but we also know her political stance wasn't coming from hate and yet, she got a lot of it in return.

Curious to see the entire essay? Click here to read every single one of the 1,344 words she had to share on the subject!

its sad that she even needs to explain herself. since people are giving her backlash, its clear that minorities vote on skin color and not the real issues. she has the right to vote for whoever she pleases & i applaud her for standing up!! way to go!!

45% of women voters did not vote for Obama. It annoys the crap out of me when people attack anyone who endorses the opposite person that isn't a bandwagon fad. Obama pandered to women to get their votes, just like he did gays/hispanics and blacks last election. Almost half the population still didn't vote for obama. You can tell it's probably just a bunch of entitled 20 somethings, anyone older than 30 doesn't have the time or care enough to trash someone for choosing someone different.

I have never seen a time where the media entertainment has been so partisan and offensive to anybody who spoke out publicly that they didn't vote as celebrity television dictated them to vote for. This is truly frightening and I believe that the celebrities that 'did come out of the closet' and promoted a republican candidate, will be ostrasized and have a hard time finding mainstream support, in the true hate crime of the century, which comes dwn to 'not living your life or supporting whoever Hollywood tells you to vote for or what to believe in. If you do not follow what media directs you to believe in, you will be attacked and destroyed because the media doesn't believe in 'hate crime' unless they are directing the programming.

Even though I voted for Obama and am a democrat…I think its awesome that she is honest and goes for who she believes is the best choice for president and not just who she identifies with because he looks like her as a black man, ya know? Like I just feel that there are so many african american celebrities that don't know anything about Obama or his policies, but adamently support him simply because they are both african american…and I think thats sad, because thats still racism.

She shouldn't have to explain or apologize about anything. In America you should be able to vote for whomever you want. Anyone that ripped on her for expressing HER opinion is just too stupid for words.

She sounds like an intelligent and informed person…really!
A least she is putting some thought into her vote than all those red necks in the Midwest who would vote for a cabbage with a GOP ribbon on it

her reason for backing Romney doesn't make much sense since his economic plans were to be revealed 'after the election' and his bi-partisan success was over 800 vetos in Mass. dem. legislature. He lost by 30 points in his home state for a reason.
black people are pissed at her because over the last 4 years Palin, Trump and the rest of the teanderthals spent all their time asking the POTUS for his birth ceritificate, calling him food stamp president etc. did all they could do to delegitimize Obama as commander in chief by race-baiting all the mouth breathing Archie bunkers in the GOP. and not one time was Romney man enough to stand up against the racial slurs and dog whistles but instead went along with it and even joked about it.The came the voter suppression attempts (which backfired huge LOL)
while she is certainly entitiled to vote for whichever candidate she likes and some of of the tweets to her were downright ignorant, there is clearly a lot she does not understand. who knows maybe she REALLY wanted a tax cut.

Re: tadge – A lot more thought into her vote than the people voting for the president "to make history! Give our first African American president another term!" (yes, I have actually seen/heard people saying that). That's just as dumb as someone NOT voting for him because he is black! IDC who you vote for, as long as you make an EDUCATED vote!

*MY* issue with her Romney endorsement had nothing to do with her political views or her race. She has a right to say how she feels. What I DIDN'T understand was why she needed to be wearing a bathing suit when she said it. THAT was uncalled for. Did she think no one would pay attention otherwise? That's what's sad, Ms. Dash.

Re: hay – Yes! I absolutely agree with this. At least two African American celebrities, one was Jay-Z the other I don't recall, have come out and admitted they voted for Obama because he is black. Well, like it or not people, that's not a good reason. People that do that are hurting themselves and everyone else by not knowing a thing about the candidate's actual intentions. It's a quite selfish and thoughtless reason to vote for someone.

Re: italianxo –
You are ignorant. I didn't vote for Obama. I voted for him last election, but not this time. I have my reasons. That said, Romney is a misogynist and Mormons are racist. They have been and will continue to be. Stacey Dash is a black woman. I was confused by her vote.

Re: NookiesWA – That's not true. Women voted for Obama in response to …ohh lets see… the woman who stood up in congress and was called a slut by The fat, loud mouth drug addict. and…. their pseudoscience that explains rape.. you know ..legitimate rape vs rape vs illegitimate rape.. Save your lies..

Re: JerseyGirlll – uhmmmm No, they didn't. You can search the web and you won't find any quotes stating because he is black.. funny cause many voted for Romney, because he is white.. even accepting his armor on faith. What bible was he going to swear in on? Where the Christians still going to make their annual pilgrimage to Utah to convert the Mormons to True Christianity?

Re: Andre – THERE WE GO. I was wondering why, if this was a celebrity for Obama everyone would hate on them and call them names. But on here, oh she's so nice, she's so brave, good for her. I don't agree with you Andre. It's just interesting to see.

Yes, you have the right to support the Devil, the Nazis, the KKK, the Republican Party (who by BTW, thinks that the rape of women can be deemed legitimate vs. non-legitimate–and that harassing Latinos and Blacks…is a time honored sport) and all manner of other Evil such as that…is okay and good for Whites to practice, but in the exercise of your right to support Evil, it is also the right of others to call you on your bad choices. Stacey is a self-hating Black woman, a traitor, a sell-out, an apologist, and a fool!!! Remember, Romney doesn't care about 47 percent of the country, his words, and that means all of you idiots who are in support of Stacey. You and your families are persona-non-grata in the Republican view of the United States, and the rest of the world, and Stacey is included in on the number, no matter the size of her bank account, because in the GOP view, she is the wrong sex, and the wrong color, and thus, her every breath is considered a waste by them.

PS: Perez, the GOP hates you also–just in case you have forgotten? They hate you openly, because you are a Latino, and you are Gay!!! Now, if you are suicidal…by way of trusting your life to those whom hate you, and hence by continuing to support people like Stacey, who supports the GOP–a group of hate mongers that want to destroy you as a part of their stated policy, as well as them wanting to destroy yours, and those like you–or you can stand-up, be a man, and say, "No, that is not right, or acceptable!" Remember, Democrats don't "Gay Bash", Republicans and their supporters do that–and they are the same people trying to arrest and deport your Latino people, while denying them human rights and treating them as slave labor, and calling them all kinds of sick and vile names…daily on Fox News and hate radio!!!

"that's more important than "equality and women's rights" for now…. She actually wrote that? The economy is more important than the constitution? So she thinks more about her career than her civil rights? Apparently yes.

That's all I needed to read. She can grovel all she wants, maybe Romney will feature her in his next film?

It's generally not a good ideal for any celebrity to express their political opinion. Most Hollywood types recognize this but for such a E grade actress to go out on a shaky limb like this is almost beyond comprehension.

Her agent or manager can't be too happy about this OR they are trying to raise her profile? Either way girl needs to shut up. She along with Dick Morris and Karl Rove look really silly trying to explain whatever it is they said a few weeks ago…Clueles

Re: I Grock For Spock – SOME PEOPLE ARE SOO STUPID, little do you know that AFRICAN AMERICANS, which I am one, voted for the best man for the job, not ROMNEY , who, it has been already stated here, couldn't even win his OWN STATE, now, if your own don't vote for you, doesn't that say a lot about you? And please, let it be known that AFRICAN AMERICANS are intelligent and we do our research, if OBAMA wasn't the right man for the job believe me he wouldn't have gotten our vote, and its not about black or white, dem or rep, its more and more about rich and poor and how the divide is widening right before our eyes.. WAKE UP you IDIOTS!! And GOD BLESS

Re: italianxo – MINORITIES DO NOT VOTE FOR SKIN COLOR!!! do yiou only vote for italians? don't patronize african americans and don't assume that we are so shallow as to only vote for an african american because of his color, you being italian I would think that you of all people could identify since your people are often characterised as mobsters and buffoons,…learn something

While it is her right to vote for whomever she chooses without the threat of death she is still a dumb ass if she thinks the U.S. that Romney and crew wanted to "save" has anything to do with her black ass. And that nonsense about equality taking a backseat? Stupid girl, if I do not have full rights, I do not give Fuck about this economy

Nah, nah, nah, boo ,boo. Face it YOU'RE the minority. Your side lost and now you're blaiming the winning side for your party's candidate. Your side lost because they tried dividing the population and Obama's side won because he was inclusive. Can you say President Obama?… no worries if you can't just yet, you'll have another 4 yrs. to practice it.

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